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We've been using the Samsung Gear VR for a while, and it's clear it is the best mobile VR headset available right now. But the question that everyone always asks is, what can I use this thing for? The obvious answer is gaming - games like Temple Run have become hackneyed and boring on our phones, but in virtual reality... |
Share selection to: The number of GPs in Australia is falling in real terms, as more and more medical graduates choose specialisations over general practice. A major report from the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research has found that, while the number of new GPs in Australia is growing relatively... |
A woman delivered a "rugby punt" to a police officer's groin and spat "thick globules of mucus and saliva" at him, a court has been told. Judge Richard Watson told Roberta Harrison, 44, in the Napier District Court that never in his 23 years on the bench had he heard of anyone reacting so violently. Harrison, of Maraen... |
Real Madrid Reiterates his love for Real fans At his official unveiling as a Besiktas player, Pepe took the time to dedicate some words to his 10-year stay at Real Madrid, showing that not all love has been lost from the Portuguese. His time in Madrid ended on a sour note, with the player firing parting shots at the cl... |
As we reported last week, the latest beta version of iOS 9 includes support for Wi-Fi Calling on AT&T for the first time. This feature, which is exclusive to the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, allows users to place cellular calls over a Wi-Fi network in situations where they have a poor cell signal. At the time of the beta’s rel... |
Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernard (Bernie) SandersSenate Dems seek to turn tables on GOP in climate change fight Bernie Sanders Town Hall finishes third in cable news race, draws 1.4 million viewers Woman to undecided Biden: 'Just say yes' to 2020 bid MORE (I-Vt.) said on Thursday that he will oppose Judge Neil Gorsuch's nom... |
“If a nuclear bomb falls on Seoul, where do you cook pork belly?” How are South Koreans talking about North Korea’s nuclear threats? This is another question we get asked very often. Here’s a rather ingenious take from a South Korean start-up, Geekble. They call themselves a “collective of geeks,” aiming to inform the ... |
Hardware More than anything else, the RAZR line is about design and hardware -- the HD series is no different. If anything, it ups the ante. The entire backs of the devices are wrapped in Kevlar, with a distinctive herringbone-like pattern of black and gray rectangles that give the rear of the phones a very smooth, sea... |
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 8/17-20/2009. All adults. MoE 2% (8/10-13/2009 results): FAVORABLE UNFAVORABLE NET CHANGE PRESIDENT OBAMA 58 (60) 38 (36) -4 PELOSI: 34 (36) 57 (56) -3 REID: 33 (34) 56 (55) -2 McCONNELL: 17 (16) 65 (66) +2 BOEHNER: 13 (11) 65 (66) +3 CONGRESSIONAL DEMS: 41 (43) 53 (51) -4 CONGRESSIONAL GOP... |
After every Olympics, there is speculation about which country performed best. Should we really be surprised when China, with its huge population, and the US, with its combination of high GDP and population, top the medal table? Can we take a look at the medal tables and see which countries did indeed perform better th... |
java, oracle, security, sql I have witnessed a very short talk between a network engineer and a top-level manager at a client’s Christmas party. The network guy explained that the firewall adds about 0.2 milliseconds latency to each round trip between the application server and the database, which adds up to some hours... |
In the spring of 2001, I got hired for one of my weirder media-related jobs. A documentarian by trade, I was brought on to an ABC television program called "The Beast," about World News Service, a fictional CNN-like news channel, where Frank Langella played the Ted Turner/Roger Ailes role as network owner/de facto prog... |
Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. Pres. Trump on death of Otto Warmbier: “It’s a disgrace…if he were brought home sooner, I think the result would have been a lot different” pic.twitter.com/0LXjjDzXPC — ABC News (@ABC) June 20, 2017 Let’s see. So far President Obama has (a) wiretapped T... |
ADVERTISEMENT The hearing comes as members of Congress remain highly skeptical that "too big to fail" is an issue that has been addressed, despite the fact that big players on Wall Street and the White House insist the financial reform law has established the tools to bring an end to potential bailouts. Lawmakers in bo... |
Many people in the technology startup community have very high regards for Paul Graham and Y Combinator, the exclusive seed accelerator program in Silicon Valley which has under its belt acclaimed successes like reddit, Airbnb and Dropbox. There’s equal standing for Andreessen Horowitz, a private equity investment comp... |
photo: David Carroll A couple weeks ago we heard that New Chitose Airport, on the Japanese island of Hokkaido plans on using snow, kept cool throughout the summer under insulating materials, to chill the airport’s cooling system in the summer. Such a system would provide up to 30% of the airport’s cooling energy. Now t... |
Takao Someya Group/University of Tokyo You can learn a lot about the goings-on of the human body just through the skin. The electrical activity of the heart, for example, is reflected in tiny electrical changes on the skin, which can be observed through electrocardiography. Electromyography reveals the electrical activ... |
Standard variety and register of the Zhuang Tai (Kra-Dai) language cluster Books of Zhuang language Standard Zhuang (autonym: Vahcuengh (pre-1982: Vaƅcueŋƅ; Sawndip: 话壮); simplified Chinese: 壮语; traditional Chinese: 壯語; pinyin: Zhuàngyǔ) is the official standardized form of the Zhuang languages, which are a branch of t... |
The waters off Mission Beach are closed for the second time in 24 hours, after a second shark sighting Friday morning. The waters off Mission Beach are closed for the second time in 24 hours, after a second shark sighting Friday morning. Visitors returned to Mission Beach Saturday, after possible shark sightings prompt... |
Sen. John McCain John Sidney McCainGOP lobbyists worry Trump lags in K Street fundraising Mark Kelly kicks off Senate bid: ‘A mission to lift up hardworking Arizonans’ Gabbard hits back at Meghan McCain after fight over Assad MORE (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday that allegations President Trump shared highly classified informat... |
This review is based on the first four episodes, which were provided prior to us. Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events was a YA book series like few others, one that relished in the morose, the bizarre and the tragically hilarious lives of the Baudelaire children, a trio of precocious, remarkably-astute orph... |
There's never been a better time to be a PC gamer. Games that push the envelope of graphical fidelity look best on the PC, and it's the first stop for independent developers making creative and surprising new games. Nearly every new genre, like battle royale, got its start on the PC. And the best part is that building ... |
Building a dungeon for your character to explore, along with being able to see that dungeon, ?is one of the most important parts of a Roguelike, and unlike sight algorithms there is a near infinite number of ways that a dungeon can be generated.?This article describes a simple map building algorithm using rooms and cor... |
I could have written this post as a more standard blog post with a catchy stand-alone intro, but it’s worth not doing that in this case. This post is about how we’re missing out on the conversational aspect of blogging, and part of the reason we’re missing out is precisely because we’re too worried with the techniques ... |
Freak weather and severe thunderstorms made the last month one of the soggiest on record, more than tripling the amount of rainfall Calgary sees in a typical July. Calgary, Canada's sunshine capital, was drenched with 206.1 mm of the wet stuff, compared to an average of 66 mm for the month of July. With 10 days in a ro... |
David Ramsey expresses his hopes for more of the "Original Team Arrow." Anyone who follows the #Arrow hashtag on Twitter knows that there is quite a demand for more of what has been dubbed “the OTA,” or “Original Team Arrow.” The trio in question there is Oliver Queen, Felicity Smoak, and John Diggle… and when asked ab... |
Two Iraq War veterans were arrested today after handcuffing themselves to the White House gate to protest Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: An Iraq war veteran and vocal opponent of the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy was arrested by police officers after chaining himself to the front gate of the White House, in apparent p... |
Anyone who knows me, knows I love Disney World. I may be a married adult, without children, but it is my go to place when I need to relax and just enjoy life. It really is the happiest place on Earth. Every time I go to Disney World I learn something new that makes my next trip even better. But why should you have to l... |
Sound artist Patrick Noecker constructs a blind taste test to examine an audience's reception to the same piece of music played at both 440 and 432 Hz. This is his story. When a musician uses a tuner, he or she will likely tune their A string or respective medium to the A at 440 Hertz or when the needle is pointing str... |
President Trump’s recent speech on Afghanistan put Pakistan “on notice” for supporting the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network. Trump threatened aid reductions and targeted sanctions — unless Pakistan changes course. India and Afghanistan are happy; Pakistan is not. Here are five reasons these threats won’t work: 1)... |
I want to look like that guy. No real man would ever say that. It’s superficial. What mature male builds their body just to look pretty? It’s weak. Girly. Non-functional. You should workout to be strong enough to deadlift a car. Or snatch double your bodyweight. Or throw a football across two time zones. Lifting weight... |
Your browser does not support HTML5 video tag.Click here to view original GIF Competing in a Street Fighter tournament is hard, especially if you’re blind. But that didn’t stop a Dutch player by the name of “Sven” from managing to take a few sets off his opponents in the early rounds of Spain’s Sonic Boom tournament fo... |
He'll appear in multiple episodes of the Netflix series and reprise his role as the Bluth family's attorney. The Bluth family attorney is back in the house. Henry Winkler is returning for the fourth season of Netflix's revived Arrested Development, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. STORY: Ron Howard Tweets Pictures... |
One of the most significant realizations to emerge since the Edward Snowden revelations, is the understanding that we need more secure tools for would be whistle-blowers to more easily provide sensitive information in a secure and anonymous manner. As such, we have seen the deployment of encrypted drop boxes by several... |
Soledad O'Brien may have just lost her job as CNN's morning show host, and she will no longer have a daily presence on the network. But, in an interview with The Huffington Post on Friday, O'Brien insisted that she is "really happy" with the way things have turned out for her. After she steps down from "Starting Point"... |
Ingredients ⅔ cup finely grounded Speculoos cookies (or graham crackers) ⅓ cup pumpkin puree 2 oz white chocolate- melted 2 oz cream cheese-softened ¼ tsp cinnamon (or pumpkin spice) 5,5 oz white chocolate for coating Instructions In a bowl mix cream cheese, pumpkin puree, cinnamon (or pumpkin pie spice) and melted whi... |
Image caption Medics have reported a lot of injured people shot in the eyes with rubber bullets The scale of casualties, and types of injuries, from clashes between security forces and protesters in Egypt, has fuelled anger against the authorities, says the BBC's Yolande Knell in Cairo. Egyptian political activists hav... |
Madison Maxey is the founder and technical lead at LOOMIA, where she designs technology and processes for seamless integration of e-textiles into everyday objects. She was the first fashion designer to win a Thiel Fellowship.- 2013 Thiel Fellow and Forbes 30 under 30- Residencies and creative work at Autodesk, Pratt's ... |
Last Sunday, Philippe Gilbert (QuickStep) rode his way to his second big victory of the spring, beating Michal Kwiatkowski (Sky) in a two-up sprint to win his fourth Amstel Gold Race. It was another terrific performance from the resurgent Belgian, not least because he crashed early in the race and suffered a small tear... |
Luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz on Thursday said India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has placed an order to lease 55 top of the range E 250 CDI luxury sedans. The high-end sedans will be used by the visiting foreign dignitaries of ministries including the head of states, presidents, prime ministers and top diplom... |
React Is The New jQuery Tiago Simões Blocked Unblock Follow Following May 9, 2016 The King is dead. Long live the King! I love jQuery. Its minimalism, quality and consistency allowed me to do anything with a few lines of code (often just a single one). It brought a clean syntax to an inconsistent language. It offered a... |
CHICAGO --T.J. Oshie is chasing one of his dreams while living the other. When Oshie arrives at the rink he becomes one of the St. Louis Blues' most important players as a first-line right wing that is as big a part of the offense as anyone. When Oshie gets home, he becomes someone completely different, a father to Lyl... |
T hroughout his movie career, Colin Farrell has played many things: an amnesiac secret agent, a hitman with a death wish, even a time traveler. But in The Lobster, the actor takes on what may very well be his most offbeat role, playing a man who has 45 days to find a mate, otherwise he'll be turned into a lobster. Yes,... |
It’s been a frustrating offseason for Baltimore fans, he says to people who already know just how little the Orioles have done. Nelson Cruz, Nick Markakis, Andrew Miller, and Nick Hundley have all left town. The entirety of the work the team has done to replace them was to bring back Delmon Young and import reliever We... |
1993 studio album by Julee Cruise Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic [1] Spin favorable[2] The Voice of Love is the second album by American dream pop singer Julee Cruise. It was released on October 12, 1993. Background and content [ edit ] Some of the songs on the album were taken from previous ... |
For years, the outlet malls in San Marcos have bustled with Mexican tourists looking for deals. Mexican license plates dotted the parking lot, and it was common to see people piling out of tour buses to do their shopping. "I haven’t seen a bus in a while," said Bradley Tanksley, store manager of New York, New York, aft... |
Stroll is believed to be on pole position to land a racing drive with the team next year. The Canadian drove the 2014-spec Williams FW36 to gain experience of the much more powerful car, continuing his development programme with the Grove-based team. "It wasn't a test," Williams spokesperson clarified to Motorsport.com... |
A screen shot from the smartphone game Airport Scanner shows simulated baggage screening. There's part of a handgun in this bag. Duke researchers used more than 20 million bag searches from the game to discover that very rare items often go undetected. Credit: Airport Scanner by Kedlin A smartphone app that turns gamer... |
Sol 870 Update: Keeping MAHLI Safe 15 January 2015 This morning the MSL operations team realized that the results of the MAHLI activities planned for Sol 870 will not be received until Saturday. Therefore, if there is a problem on Sol 870 that halts the sequence while the MAHLI dust cover is open, the cover would remai... |
Three Edmonton men have been charged following the seizure of 2,000 fentanyl pills at a southwest-area condominium, the largest bust of the lethal painkiller by the Edmonton members of the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams. Fentanyl was responsible for the overdose deaths of 274 Albertans in 2015 and another 69 fa... |
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